About

Josh Hetzler is a Brooklyn based creative producer. With his producing partner Julie Buck, he is currently in post production on Anna Martemucci's debut feature Hollidaysburg, from executive producers Chris Moore, Josh Shader, Neal Dodson and Zachary Quinto. The making of their film is being documented for the television series The Chair that will have its broadcast premier in the Fall of 2014 on Starz. Josh and Julie’s previous collaboration is Tim Blake Nelson's Anesthesia, starring Kristen Stewart, Sam Waterston and Glenn Close. His HBO animated film from directors Liz Swados, David Wachtenheim, and Robert Marianetti, with producer Roz Lichter, features the voices of Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, and Fred Armisen, and premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2014. His films have screened at Cannes, Sundance, Slamdance, SXSW, Tribeca, IFC, and hundreds of other festivals and theaters around the world. His 2011 film The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting premiered at Sundance, was awarded the National Board of Review Prize at his alma mater the NYU Graduate Film Program, and is currently showing nationally on PBS. SEED, his 2010 collaboration with Sundance-winning cinematographer Ben Richardson, took the top prize at Slamdance, and their most recent collaboration was a yearlong multi-stage series of animations for which they created, from the ground-up, a custom stop-motion animation studio, fabrication workshop, and post-production facility, where they managed a team of over 40 animators and designers. Josh also produces social media animation with director Andrew Jive and producer Ryan Silbert. Josh’s commercial and broadcast clients include BBDO, Illy, DirecTV, Heineken, HBO, and The Sundance Channel.